2 O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets:

3 Stealing and giving odor.-Enough: no more;
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.-

Shakspeare.

Sent. 3d.-No more, and what follows, form the first and second part of a double compact; but it is to be observed that the second part, is in turn the first part of another, of which the other parts are suppressed. "Play no more, for therefore it is not, &c." The delivery should correspond.

SEC. XXXV. THE LOVE OF NATURE.

1 The love of Nature, and the scenes she draws,
Is Nature's dictate. Strange! there should be found
Who, self-imprisoned in their proud saloons,
Renounce the odors of the open field

For the unscented fictions of the loom;
2 Who, satisfied with only pencilled scenes,
Prefer to the performance of a God

The inferior wonders of an artist's hand!
Lovely, indeed, the mimic works of art,
But Nature's works far lovelier.

Cowper.

Sent. 2d.-A mixed sentence: as a whole comp. decl. single compact of the third form: correlative words, therefore because: the first part fragmentary: it is being suppressed before strange, and that after it. Therefore it is strange that, &c.-because lovely indeed, &c. The second part is compact, of the first form, and has the correlative words indeed-but, instead of though-yet, which would be more accurate. The exclamation point after strange, represents the comma: after hand, the semicolon.

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SEC. XXXVI. DEATH, A FRIEND OF THE GOOD.

I will teach the world

2 To thank thee. Who are thine accusers?
4 The living! they who never felt thy power,

3 Who?

And know thee not! The curses of the wretch

5 Whose crimes are rife, his sufferings, when thy hand
Is on him, and the hour he dreads is come,

Are writ among thy praises. But the good:

6 Does he, whom thy kind hand dismissed to peace,
Upbraid the gentle violence that took off

His fetters, and unbound his prison cell?

Bryant.

Sent. 3d.--Who should be delivered with the rising slide. (See Rule III. Exception.) Sent. 4th.-A compound loose definite interrogative. Sent. 6th.-A semi-interrogative, with a perfect loose construction of the parts.

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SEC. XXXVII. A SISTER'S INTERCESSION.

Isab. To-morrow! 2 O, that's sudden! 3 Spare him! spare him!

4 He's not prepared for death! Even for our kitchens,

5 We kill the fowls of season; shall we serve Heaven, With less respect than we do minister

6 To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, bethink you : Who is it that hath died for this offence ?

7 There's many have committed it?

Ang. The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept:

8 Those many had not dared to do that evil,

If the first man that did the edict infringe,

Had answered for his deed.

Shakspeare.

Sent. 1st.-Fragment. simp. def. interrog. excl. Sent. 3d.-Single compact, third form: therefore-because he's not. Sent. 5th." If even, then shall we, &c." Sent. 7th.-A compound close indirect interrogative. Sent. 8th.-"Yet the law, though it, &c." "Then those, if the,

&c."

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SEC. XXXVIII. WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE.

What constitutes a State?

Not high-raised battlements or labored mound,
Thick wall or moated gate;

Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned;
Not bays and broad-arm ports,

Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride;
Not starred and spangled courts,

Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride;

No; men high-minded men:

2 With powers, as far above dull brutes endued
In forest, brake, or den,

As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude:
Men, who their duties know,

But know their rights; and, knowing, dare maintain:
Prevent the long-aimed blow,

And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain.
These constitute a state;

3 And sovereign law, that state's collected will,

O'er thrones and globes elate

Sits empress crowning good: repressing ill.
Smit by her sacred frown,

4 The fiend discretion* like a vapor sinks;

• Arbitrary power.

5

6

And e'en the all-dazzling crown

Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
Such was this heaven-loved isle:

Than Lesbos fairer, and the Cretan shore!

No more shall freedom smile?

Shall Britons languish and be men no more?
Since all must life resign,

7 Those sweet rewards which decorate the brave
"Tis folly to decline,

And steal inglorious to the silent

grave.

Sir William Jones.

Sentence 1st.-A compound declarative double compact, with first and third proposition: the first having five members; and the second being perfect loose in four fragmentary parts; of which the fourth contains an imperfect loose. No, the fifth member of the first part, is the equivalent of the other four. (See Rule VIII. 3, Classification, Double Compact, General Note, and Simp. Declarative, yes, no.)

Sentence 4th.-A compound declarative single compact, third form: correlative words when -then.

Sentence 7th.-A compound declarative single compact, second form: correlative words since therefore.

SEC. XXXIX. A STORY LOSES NOTHING IN ITS PROGRESS.

Two honest tradesmen meeting in the strand, 1 One took the other briskly by the hand:

"Hark ye," said he: "'tis an odd story this,

2 About the crows!"-"I don't know what it is,"
3 Replied his friend.-"No! 4 I'm surprised at that;
Where I come from, it is the common chat.

5 But you
shall hear an odd affair, indeed!
And that it happened, they are all agreed.
(Not to detain you from a thing so strange,)
6 A gentleman, that lives not far from 'Change,
This week, in short, (as all the alley knows,)
Taking a puke, has thrown up three black crows."
7 "Impossible!"-8" Nay, but it's really true;
I had it from good hands, and so may you.'

9 "From whose, I pray?"-10 So having named the man,
Straight to inquire his curious comrade ran.

11 "Sir, did you tell-?" relating the affair.-
"Yes, sir: I did; and if it's worth your care,

12 Ask Mr. Such-a-one: he told it me;

But, by-the-by, 'twas two black crows: not three."

13 Resolved to trace so wondrous an event,

Whip to the third, the virtuoso went.

14 "Sir"-and so forth.-"Why, yes: the thing is fact, Though, in regard to number, not exact:

15 It was not two black crows; 'twas only one: The truth of that, you may depend upon : The gentleman himself told me the case.

16 "Where may I find him?”—17 "Why,-in such a place." 18 Away he goes; and, having found him out,—

Sir, be so good as to resolve a doubt."

19 Then to his last informant he referred,

And begged to know, if true what he had heard.

20 "Did you, sir, throw up a black crow ?"-21 "Not I!"22 "Bless me! how people propagate a lie!

23 Black crows have been thrown up, three, two, and one, And here I find, at last, all comes to none !

24 Did you say nothing of a crow at all?".

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25 “Crow ?—crow ?-26 Perhaps I might, now I recall
27 The matter over." -" And pray, sir: what was it?”-
"Why, I was horrid sick, and, at the last,
28 I did throw up, (and told my neighbor so,)

Something that was as black, sir, as a crow.

Byrom.

Sentence 1st." When two, &c., then one, &c." The entire sentence semi-interrogative concluding with a simp. indir. interrog. excl. Sentence 3d.-No is a comp. close def. interrog. excl. "Do you say you don't, &c.!" Sentence 4th.-"Therefore I'm surprised, &c., for where, &c." Sentence 15th.-And used for but. Sentence 11th.-The circumstance "relating, &c.," obeys the law of the preceding slide. Sentence 12th.-The last part of this, is an inverted double compact. Sentence 14th.-Fragmentary. "Sir, did you say that threw up, &c." (See Conventional Emphasis.) Sentence 25th.-A loose def. interrog. Sentence 26th.-The first part of sing. compact disjoined by the question which follows from the second part in Sentence 28th; which see. "Therefore I might, &c., because I was horrid, &c."

SEC XL. HOW WE SHOULD LIVE.

So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, that moves

To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death;

Thou go not like the quarry slave at night,

Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,

Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch

About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.-Bryant.

A mixed sentence, combining two single and one double compact. "So live, that when thy summons, &c.-then thou go not, &c.-but, &c."

SEC. XLI. THE DYING CHRISTIAN.

1 Vital spark of heavenly flame!
Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame!

2 Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying ;-
Oh the pain, the bliss, of dying!

3 Cease, fond Nature! cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.

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7

Hark! 5 They whisper: angels say,
Sister spirit, come away.

What is this absorbs me quite:
Steals my senses: shuts my sight:
Drowns my spirits: draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul! can this be Death?

The world recedes: it disappears :

8 Heaven opens on my eyes: my ears
With sounds seraphic ring:

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
9 O Grave! where is thy victory?

O Death! where is thy sting?

Pope.

There is great danger, in the delivery of this piece, of falling into a whining, canting, mean ured manner. Read it, if possible, as you would read prose.

SEC. XLII. THE STRATAGEM OF A THIEF.

In Broad-street buildings on a winter's night,
Snug by his parlor fire, a gouty wight
Sat all alone with one hand rubbing

His feet, rolled up in fleecy hose;

With t' other he'd beneath his nose

The Public Leger; in whose columns grubbing,
He noted all the sales of hops,

Ships, shops, and slops,

1 Gum, galls, and groceries, ginger, gin, Tar, tallow, turmeric, turpentine, and tin; When, lo! a decent personage in black,

Entered and most politely said,

"Your footman, sir, has gone his nightly track To the King's Head,

And left your door ajar; which I

Observed in passing by,

And thought it neighborly to give you notice."

2 "Ten thousand thanks: how very few get, In time of danger,

3

Such kind attention from a stranger!
Assuredly that fellow's throat is
Doomed to a final drop at Newgate?
4 He knows, too, (the unconscious elf,)